PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Cultural-Historical Psychology, Ontogeny, Lev Vygotsky
9 Dec 2015
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Cognition the activity of knowing and the process through which knowledge is acquired. Cognitive development changes that occur in mental activities such as attending, perceiving, learning, thinking, and remembering. Genetic epistemology the experimental study of the development of knowledge developed by piaget. Intelligence in piaget"s theory, a basic life function that enables an organism to adapt to its environment. Cognitive equilibrium piaget"s term for the state of affairs in which there is balanced relation. Children are active and curious explorers who are constantly challenged by stimuli not immediately understood. The imbalances between the child"s mode of thinking and environmental events prompt them to make mental adjustments enabling them to cope with puzzling new experiences. If children are to know something they must construct that knowledge themselves (constructivist). How we gain knowledge: cognitive schemes and cognitive processes. Cognition develops though the refinement and transformation of mental structures/schemes.
